DrayTek router owners experienced significant disruptions when routers began rebooting continuously, leading to widespread reports of inoperable devices. ISPs such as Gamma and Zen confirmed the issue stemmed from DrayTek equipment, urging users to disconnect from the internet and perform a firmware upgrade. DrayTek provided specific instructions, cautioning against remote access unless necessary and recommending security practices like two-factor authentication. This outage was potentially linked to previously reported buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in the firmware, prompting some ISPs to offer alternatives to affected customers.
"The solution is to disconnect the WAN and then try to upgrade to the latest firmware ... Try the TFTP firmware upgrade if the normal upgrade using the web UI does not work."
"Gamma ... acknowledged that some punters were struggling with their equipment, said the SNAFU wasn't caused by its network, and didn't name DrayTek."
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